9:00 – 12:00 Keynote:Teaching to Make a Difference: Touching the Hearts and Minds of Our Students 1:00 – 2:00 WorkshopWeave Poetry Throughout Your Entire Year Teach Young People To Care About The Sounds Of Language, The Power of Imagery…And To Know The Joy Of Falling Headlong In Love With Words
Workshop Grades K-8
Don’t wait until the end of the year to introduce poetry! Allow poetry to start every day, end every day, and honor life-changing moments throughout the school year. Poetry can teach kids metaphor, imagery, precise language and to deeply care about writing and reading. This presentation is based on Georgia Heard’s book for Firsthand/Heinemann on creating a poetry curriculum throughout the school year. She’ll discuss ways to weave poetry throughout the fabric of the day, as well as how to teach students to write heartfelt, powerful poems.
2:15 – 3:15 WorkshopA Place for Wonder: Writing Non-Fiction in the Primary ClassroomWorkshop Grades K-2This workshop grows out of material in Georgia Heard’s forthcoming new book (co-authored with Jen McDonough)(Stenhouse 2009). Georgia Heard will present a new look at reading and writing non-fiction in the primary grades. First, she’ll talk about creating ‘a curriculum to support wonder’ across the year, and then move into a new way of setting up a non-fiction unit of study. This presentation is an invitation to remember that when we teach non-fiction, we have a chance to teach kids to write ‘books of wonder,’ and to remind kids that writers observe the world like scientists.
Georgia Heard is an internationally known writer, keynote speaker and educational consultant. Thousands of educators and writers have listened to Ms. Heard speak of her passion for poetry and writing. She has keynoted hundreds of conferences and given workshops on writing throughout the United States as well as in Sweden, Canada, and Southeast Asia and she has brought her love of writing to classrooms throughout the United States. Ms. Heard is the author of several books on teaching poetry and writing including her most recent title, The Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques That Work (Heinemann, 2002), the popular Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School (Heinemann, 1998), an inspirational and practical book for educators on how to engender a love of poetry among students, Writing Towards Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way (Heinemann, 1995) and For the Good of the Earth and Sun: Teaching Poetry (Heinemann, 1987). She is also the author of three children's poetry books, Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky (Boyds Mill Press, 1995), a collection about animals, Songs of Myself: An Anthology of Poetry and Art (Mondo, 2000), and This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort (Candlewick Press, 2002).
9:00 – 12:00 Keynote:Teaching to Make a Difference:Touching the Hearts and Minds of Our Students
1:00 – 2:00 Workshop Weave Poetry Throughout Your Entire Year
Teach Young People To Care About The Sounds Of Language, The Power of Imagery…And To Know The Joy Of Falling Headlong In Love With Words
Workshop Grades K-8
Don’t wait until the end of the year to introduce poetry! Allow poetry to start every day, end every day, and honor life-changing moments throughout the school year. Poetry can teach kids metaphor, imagery, precise language and to deeply care about writing and reading. This presentation is based on Georgia Heard’s book for Firsthand/Heinemann on creating a poetry curriculum throughout the school year. She’ll discuss ways to weave poetry throughout the fabric of the day, as well as how to teach students to write heartfelt, powerful poems.
2:15 – 3:15 WorkshopA Place for Wonder: Writing Non-Fiction in the Primary Classroom Workshop Grades K-2This workshop grows out of material in Georgia Heard’s forthcoming new book (co-authored with Jen McDonough)(Stenhouse 2009). Georgia Heard will present a new look at reading and writing non-fiction in the primary grades. First, she’ll talk about creating ‘a curriculum to support wonder’ across the year, and then move into a new way of setting up a non-fiction unit of study. This presentation is an invitation to remember that when we teach non-fiction, we have a chance to teach kids to write ‘books of wonder,’ and to remind kids that writers observe the world like scientists.
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Georgia Heard is an internationally known writer, keynote speaker and educational consultant. Thousands of educators and writers have listened to Ms. Heard speak of her passion for poetry and writing. She has keynoted hundreds of conferences and given workshops on writing throughout the United States as well as in Sweden, Canada, and Southeast Asia and she has brought her love of writing to classrooms throughout the United States.
Ms. Heard is the author of several books on teaching poetry and writing including her most recent title, The Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques That Work (Heinemann, 2002), the popular Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School (Heinemann, 1998), an inspirational and practical book for educators on how to engender a love of poetry among students, Writing Towards Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way (Heinemann, 1995) and For the Good of the Earth and Sun: Teaching Poetry (Heinemann, 1987). She is also the author of three children's poetry books, Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky (Boyds Mill Press, 1995), a collection about animals, Songs of Myself: An Anthology of Poetry and Art (Mondo, 2000), and This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort (Candlewick Press, 2002).